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Top 10 articles: Oracle drops OpenOffice, and Microsoft cosies up with the security industry

Rounding up the most popular V3.co.uk stories this week

A surprise hit among V3.co.uk readers this week was the news that Oracle is dropping the OpenOffice application suite from its commercial software offerings, and handing the code to the open source community.

Oracle said it will now concentrate its open source efforts on MySQL and Linux, where it is more likely to get corporate and government support, although it’s unclear whether the software giant will still invest in OpenOffice.

Also popular this week was news of Microsoft’s drive to improve the company’s engagement with the security industry, by urging staff to report any bugs they find in third-party software.

Redmond appears in our top 10 again in the form of the beta availability of its Office 365 offering which was announced this week.

Other top stories included a new report by McAfee which found that 80 per cent of critical infrastructure firms have been hit by denial-of-service attacks in the past year, and the news that a Ministry of Defence security error led to data on nuclear submarines being exposed on the web.

V3.co.uk readers were also keen to read about SAP acquisition rumours, Alcatel-Lucent’s intention to sell its telecoms business, and the Motorola Xoom review, while news that the FBI is cracking down on several gambling sites also proved a hit.